Welcome to Day 2 of Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju Main Event
First eight hours of play are in the books for the HK$2,000,0000 ($255,000) Main Event at Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju. Dozens of the most renowned poker players cruised through the opening stage and 22 of them bagged their advancing stacks to continue in pursuit of one of the biggest prizes that will be awarded this year. With 42 entries already made, the prize pool is guaranteed to exceed $10 million and the number is likely to be boosted further.
Late registration for late arrivals and re-entries will run for three more levels. Players receive 250,000 in chips in return for the high buy-in and the next round will be played at 3,000/6,000 blinds with a 6,000 ante. So the starting stack still has a value of more than 40 bigs and that's still a solid baseline for those who join before the buzzer.
Those who have already increased their belongings through successful campaigns on Day 1 surely hope to avoid the dilemma of whether to rejoin or not and if there is still enough room to get some wind in their sails when entering with a starting stack with the tournament average already twice as high.
The current top three features players who have already fired two shells. Day 1 chip leader Sam Greenwood (865,000), Chan Wai Leong (790,000) and David Peters (742,000) are all in for just over half a million dollars. They managed to turn their second attempts into a promising field position.
2018 Triton Montenegro Main Event champion Mikita Badziakouski was among those who were able to navigate to the top half of the rankings without stopping at the registration desk more than once. Badziakouski eliminated Steve O'Dwyer at the latter stage of the day, vaulting to the chip lead at the time. He eventually finished with 707,000, the sixth largest stack on the leaderboard.
According to Winfred Yu, it might be a good thing to attract a bigger turnout. Yu was Badziakouski's nearest challenger in the last level. Sitting on a neighboring table, Yu observed that he was tied with Badziakouski for the lead.
"If Mikita is the chip leader, nobody will enter tomorrow. If I'm the chip leader, people will be lining up to register!" Yu laughed. Neither of the two was able to secure the pole position but Yu won the virtual heads-up race, bagging 731,000.
Yu didn't offer an opinion on how would Sam Greenwood's name at the top impact the late registration. But we'll find the answer in the coming hours so tune back to PokerNews for continuous live updates. The action resumes at 2 p.m. local time (11 p.m. ET).